Posted on 04/11/2020 4:57:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Grace Rhodes was getting worried last month as she watched the coronavirus tear through New York and Chicago. But her 8,000-person hometown in southern Illinois still had no reported cases, and her boss at her pharmacy job assured her: “It’ll never get here.”
Now it has. A new wave of coronavirus cases is spreading deep into rural corners of the country where people once hoped their communities might be shielded because of their isolation from hard-hit urban centers and the natural social distancing of life in the countryside.
The coronavirus has officially reached nearly three-quarters of the country’s rural counties, with 1 in 7 reporting at least one death. Doctors and elected officials are warning that a late-arriving wave of illness could overwhelm rural communities that are older, poorer and sicker than much of the country, and already dangerously short on medical help.
“Everybody never really thought it would get to us,” said Rhodes, 18, who is studying to become a nurse. “A lot of people are in denial.”
With 42 states now urging people to stay at home, the last holdouts are the Republican governors of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Arkansas. Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has suggested that the stricter measures violated personal liberties, and she said her state’s rural character made it better positioned to handle the outbreak.
“South Dakota is not New York City,” Noem said at a news conference last week.
But many rural doctors, leaders and health experts worry that is exactly where their communities are heading, and that they will have fewer hospital beds, ventilators and nurses to handle the onslaught.
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DAMN sickening!! OMG I just received a news flash from Fox on my IPad US reaches highest death count in the world, we had 80,000 deaths from the 2017 flu YET crickets, but then again it wasn’t an election year AND it was to early to completely crash a beyond GREAT economy!! BASTARDS!! Fauci is a little deep state lizard and completely snowed Trump with his absolutely FAKE model numbers, but how else was he going to create complete hysteria in the American public!! We have become a nation of snowflakes what the media has been able to accomplish here scares the hell out of me!!
Personally I'd favor unlocking the country by population density, but I suspect if we do there will be a sudden lemming-like migration of city dwellers seeking the Promised Land of toilet paper and hand sanitizer, bringing scarcity, starvation, and the pestilence along with them. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse will be driving an SUV with street tires and city plates on it...
Can’t speak for other places, but Iowa is as shut down as about anywhere. The Gov just isn’t calling it a stay-at-home order. That of course infuriates the local MSM ignoramuses, who can’t tell anyone what else they think should be shut down.
Freeze financial services like banks and insurance so no one can get money?
Shut down fuel and food production, processing and distribution?
Are Dems in favor of canceling the planting of crops and livestock trade?
You must have 5G ... disease seems transmitted via 5G dontchaknow.
SAee, 5G is the transporter wave for teleportation, and the easiest thing to teletransport is a virus ‘cause it isn’t alive.
I think there were only three authors. Plus one ‘Political Minder’.
My whole life my liberal “friends” said Republicans were greedy and self centered. Now, during this COVID hysteria, I can see what they were saying to a degree
But not all age demographic groups are at any serious risk. That is the missing piece.
How do I infect grandma unless I do it on purpose? She has to let me in, right? Such BS. It is shameful. You are being stupid.
Im watching virginia. Democratic counties are doing much worse thsn republican ones.
More importantly, fairfax seems to be incapable of distancing. My county has some overpopulated hispanic areas that are getting ravaged.
Meanwhile, most of our state has a few cases per county. We could open them all up and nobody would notice.
My daughter-in-law and son live on a lake in Central Texas. It’s usually very quiet there because a lot of the homes are vacation homes or second homes. But she says it’s pretty noisy right now because people have escaped to those homes to get out of the cities and they’re having huge parties all the time now!
It is so bad there is talk of closing the lake to boaters because of the partying and large gatherings going on on shore.
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